Chapter 32. Don’t Try Justifying Stupid Systems
“Forcing a given team to adopt an approach that they don’t believe in, either in their development process or in the language they’re using to create the system, is a certain recipe for failure.” | ||
| --Luke Hohmann, Beyond Software Architecture | ||
I was traveling on a train the other day (yes, there are still some of us who do) when we encountered a problem. It was fairly simple. Someone had messed with a security door at the dining car and triggered an alarm—or something. This brought the train to a standstill. But it did this in a very long tunnel. The train couldn’t move until the fault had been rectified, which involved finding the train manager (they used to be called guards, remember?) and getting ...
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